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http://www.businessinsider.com/holograms-detect-malaria-infections-in-blood-samples-2016-9Researchers are using holograms to detect malaria infections in blood sampleshttp://www.businessinsider.com/holograms-detect-malaria-infections-in-blood-samples-2016-9
Mon, 26 Sep 2016 23:13:00 -0400Dylan Furness
<p><span><img style="float:right;" src="http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/57e995d4b0ef9748258b6f89-528/107919237.jpg" alt="child malaria bed net" data-mce-source="Spencer Platt/Getty Images" /></span></p>
<p><span>Mosquitos are the world&rsquo;s most deadly animal, according to the World Health Organization, making these insects more than mere pests for some 500 million people every year. </span></p>
<p><span>Their bites may be irritating but the diseases they carry can be fatal. Of all the illnesses&nbsp;mosquitos transmit, malaria is by far the most offensive, causing the deaths of as many as 2.7 million people annually.</span></p>
<p><span></span>Detecting malaria is pretty straightforward in western medicine. &ldquo;Currently, the gold standard technique to diagnose malaria is manual microscopic evaluation of stained blood smears by expert microscopists who are in short supply in low-resources settings,&rdquo; Duke University Professor of Biomedical Engineering&nbsp;<a href="https://bme.duke.edu/faculty/adam-wax" target="_blank">Adam Wax</a>&nbsp;told Digital Trends. In other words, well-trained practitioners have to spend a lot of time looking&nbsp;through microscopes.</p>
<p>But experts are in short supply, especially&nbsp;in impoverished regions where malaria hits hardest, so the team of Duke engineers&nbsp;devised an innovative technique that replaces the expert with an algorithm. They&nbsp;<a href="http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0163045" target="_blank">published a paper on&nbsp;their study</a>&nbsp;in the journal Plos One last week.</p>
<p>To start, the researchers shine a laser back and forth through a blood sample to construct&nbsp;a holographic image. The technique is pretty standard &mdash; one that the team has used for years. The images can depict deformations and various signs of infection in the cells, but they still need to be analyzed to determine whether the symptoms are of malaria or another disease.</p>
<p>Wax and doctoral student Han Sang Park identified 23 metrics &mdash; such as cellular thickness and asymmetry &mdash; that help distinguish infected cells from uninfected ones. The metrics were helpful but less reliable than the researchers desired. None of them exceeded 90-percent accuracy on their own, so they could not match the eye of a trained practitioner with a microscope. That is where the algorithm came in.</p>
<p>The researchers fed data on thousands of healthy and unhealthy cells into the deep learning program, which trained itself&nbsp;to determine which parameters in which thresholds and which combinations would most likely&nbsp;signal a malaria infection.</p>
<p>After viewing thousands of images, the algorithm learned&nbsp;to correctly detect malaria with at least 97 percent accuracy and process thousands of cells per minute by deconstructing the holograms into simplified data on the 23 metrics. The holograms can be&nbsp;easily packaged and transmitted in bulk, since the algorithm analyzes&nbsp;them on such simplified metrics, making the technique viable for low-resource regions where internet connection tends to be&nbsp;spotty.</p>
<p>Although successful, the instruments&nbsp;Wax and Park created was best suited for laboratories. They have since developed a portable and more&nbsp;affordable version that can be used in the field and runs about $500.</p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/holograms-detect-malaria-infections-in-blood-samples-2016-9#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> <p>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/preauricular-sinus-small-hole-above-ear-2016-11">Here's why some people have a tiny hole above their ears</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/duke-university-backs-ncaas-decision-to-pull-out-of-north-carolina-2016-9One of North Carolina's most prestigious universities is backing the NCAA boycotthttp://www.businessinsider.com/duke-university-backs-ncaas-decision-to-pull-out-of-north-carolina-2016-9
Mon, 12 Sep 2016 23:35:18 -0400Louise Liu
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/57d76ae9077dcca2018b5514-2400/rtsay8u.jpg" alt="RTSAY8U" data-mce-source="USA Today Sports/Reuters" data-mce-caption="Duke University men's basketball player Marshall Plumlee in the 2016 NCAA Tournament at Dunkin Donuts Center." data-link="http://pictures.reuters.com/archive/COLLEGE-BASKETBALL--9190876.html#/SearchResult&amp;ITEMID=9190876&amp;POPUPPN=1&amp;POPUPIID=2C0FQEJZTV_S" /></p><p>Duke University has expressed support for the NCAA's decision to pull postseason sporting events out of North Carolina, according to a statement by the university.</p>
<p><span>The NCAA announced Monday that it would </span><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-ncaa-pulls-7-postseason-events-out-of-nc-due-to-lgbt-law-2016-9">relocate seven championship events</a><span> scheduled in North Carolina because of HB2, the state's "</span><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-north-carolina-bathroom-law-could-be-decided-in-virginia-2016-3">bathroom law</a><span>" that&nbsp;</span><span>prevents local governments from passing nondiscrimination ordinances for LGBT people, and bars transgender people from using the bathroom that corresponds with their gender identity.</span></p>
<p>"We agree with the NCAA's decision," Duke athletics director and vice president Kevin White said in a statement. "Our position has been clear on this matter, which is that this legislation is discriminatory, troubling, and embarrassing."</p>
<h2>Read the full statement here:</h2>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">"We agree with the NCAA&rsquo;s decision. Our position has been clear on this matter, which is that this legislation is discriminatory, troubling and embarrassing. We deplore any efforts to deprive individuals, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, of legal protection and rights. We will always be committed to diversity and inclusion, and applaud any efforts to ensure that those values are protected and enacted at all times, and in all places in the state of North Carolina."</p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/duke-university-backs-ncaas-decision-to-pull-out-of-north-carolina-2016-9#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> <p>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/president-barack-obama-donald-trump-journalists-white-house-meeting-press-2016-11">Obama gives Trump advice during their first White House meeting</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/espn-30for30-documentary-duke-lacrosse-scandal-2016-3The 21 most shocking quotes from ESPN's documentary on the Duke lacrosse scandalhttp://www.businessinsider.com/espn-30for30-documentary-duke-lacrosse-scandal-2016-3
Sun, 20 Mar 2016 10:17:53 -0400Cork Gaines
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/56e6b0cf52bcd066018b615f-756-567/cover.png" alt="Duke LAX Case Quote" data-mce-source="ESPN" /></p><p>In 2006, a party held by the Duke lacrosse team ended in chaos when two exotic dancers were hired and one later accused three players of sexually assaulting her in a bathroom.</p>
<p>In a "30 for 30" documentary on the case, "Fantastic Lies," ESPN describes Durham, North Carolina, as a city where crime, racial tension, and poverty among locals led to "resentments in the community, and distrust" toward the school. Don Yeager, an author, called Durham "ready-made for the kind of controversy that happened."</p>
<p>The three players accused were later exonerated when it was shown that the district attorney withheld evidence, phone and video records showed that the players could not have been in the same place long enough to commit a crime, and the DNA evidence did not support the woman's claims. But&nbsp;the media circus that caused the case to blow up nationally still affects people today.</p>
<p>Below, we'll take a look at the most shocking quotes from this must-see documentary"</p><h3>In the beginning, the players were given some terrible advice.</h3>
<img src="http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/56e8e09952bcd028008b6976-400-300/in-the-beginning-the-players-were-given-some-terrible-advice.jpg" alt="" />
<br/><br/><h3>Even Duke professors say that leading administrators were kept in the dark.</h3>
<img src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/56e6372952bcd01a008b604d-400-300/even-duke-professors-say-that-leading-administrators-were-kept-in-the-dark.jpg" alt="" />
<br/><br/><h3>The kids seemed to think at the beginning that the entire thing was no big deal.</h3>
<img src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/56e637c152bcd01a008b604e-400-300/the-kids-seemed-to-think-at-the-beginning-that-the-entire-thing-was-no-big-deal.jpg" alt="" />
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Mon, 14 Mar 2016 09:22:31 -0400Cork Gaines
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/56e6b0cf52bcd066018b615f-756-567/cover.png" alt="Duke LAX Case Quote" data-mce-source="ESPN" /></p><p>In 2006, a party held by the Duke lacrosse team ended in chaos when two exotic dancers were hired and one later accused three players of sexually assaulting her in a bathroom.</p>
<p>In a "30 for 30" documentary on the case, "Fantastic Lies," ESPN describes Durham, North Carolina, as a city where crime, racial tension, and poverty among locals led to "resentments in the community, and distrust" toward the school. Don Yeager, an author, called Durham "ready-made for the kind of controversy that happened."</p>
<p>The three players accused were later exonerated when it was shown that the district attorney withheld evidence, phone and video records showed that the players could not have been in the same place long enough to commit a crime, and the DNA evidence did not support the woman's claims. But&nbsp;the media circus that caused the case to blow up nationally still affects people today.</p>
<p>Below, we'll take a look at the most shocking quotes from this must-see documentary"</p><h3>In the beginning, the players were given some terrible advice.</h3>
<img src="http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/56e8e09952bcd028008b6976-400-300/in-the-beginning-the-players-were-given-some-terrible-advice.jpg" alt="" />
<br/><br/><h3>Even Duke professors say that leading administrators were kept in the dark.</h3>
<img src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/56e6372952bcd01a008b604d-400-300/even-duke-professors-say-that-leading-administrators-were-kept-in-the-dark.jpg" alt="" />
<br/><br/><h3>The kids seemed to think at the beginning that the entire thing was no big deal.</h3>
<img src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/56e637c152bcd01a008b604e-400-300/the-kids-seemed-to-think-at-the-beginning-that-the-entire-thing-was-no-big-deal.jpg" alt="" />
<br/><br/><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/espn-30for30-documentary-duke-lacrosse-scandal-2016-3#/#but-once-the-media-caught-on-the-kids-were-in-trouble-even-one-of-the-attorneys-who-defended-the-players-had-no-trouble-believing-in-their-guilt-4">See the rest of the story at Business Insider</a> http://www.businessinsider.com/excel-mysql-data-analytics-duke-university-online-course-2016-3One of the most prestigious universities in the country is currently offering an online class for those who’d like to improve their business acumenhttp://www.businessinsider.com/excel-mysql-data-analytics-duke-university-online-course-2016-3
Tue, 08 Mar 2016 11:11:00 -0500Tyler Lauletta
<p><em>The <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/insiderpicks" target="_blank">Insider Picks</a> team writes about stuff we think you'll like. Business Insider has affiliate partnerships so we may get a share of the revenue from your purchase.</em></p>
<p class="p1"><img style="float:right;" src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/5601a774bd86ef1e008bc3a3-909-682/9136990774_5edabbdb4a_b.jpg" alt="computer, work, office" data-mce-source="Tech Hub/flickr" data-link="https://www.flickr.com/photos/techhub/9136990774/" />Data analytics is changing the way we do business. With access to more information about their customers than ever before, along with the ability to interpret that information in more nuanced ways, businesses now have the opportunity to get intensely specific feedback on where they are succeeding and how they can do better.</p>
<p class="p1">If you are interested in learning how to interpret&nbsp;data from some of the best and brightest, Coursera has linked up with Duke University to offer a specialization entitled<strong> <a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=EHFxW6yx8Uo&amp;subid=&amp;offerid=388822.1&amp;type=10&amp;tmpid=18061&amp;RD_PARM1=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.coursera.org%2Fspecializations%2Fexcel-mysql" target="_blank">Excel to MySQL: Analytic Techniques for Business Specialization</a></strong>. Through a series of five courses, each lasting from 4-6 weeks and expecting 3-5 hours of attention per week, students will be taught how they can embrace big data and use Excel and MySQL, in order to derive as much new information as possible from the information they already have.</p>
<p class="p1">You'll&nbsp;begin by learning best practices for how to use data analytics to expand your business, through identifying key metrics and distinguishing them from regular data points. You&rsquo;ll also study the techniques used by companies such as Amazon, Uber, and Airbnb, and how their use of data analysis help them disrupt their respective industries.</p>
<p class="p1">From there, you&nbsp;will dive into the waters of hands-on data analytics, with classes on Excel, Tableau, and MySQL. You&rsquo;ll also learn to take the information derived from your data analysis and present it clearly and concisely to those who are less familiar with the principles you&rsquo;ve learned.</p>
<p class="p1">At the end of your specialization training you will work on a capstone project, combining all of the knowledge you have attained throughout the course of the program to make recommendations to a company on how to expand their business. You can enroll for the specialization on a class-by-class basis for $79 each, or save a bit of money and enroll in the whole thing upfront for $355.</p>
<p class="p1"><a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=EHFxW6yx8Uo&amp;subid=&amp;offerid=388822.1&amp;type=10&amp;tmpid=18061&amp;RD_PARM1=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.coursera.org%2Fspecializations%2Fexcel-mysql" target="_blank"><strong>Excel to MySQL: Analytic Techniques for Business Specialization, $79 for pay-by-course,&nbsp;$355 for pre-pay, available at&nbsp;Coursera</strong></a><strong>.</strong></p>
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Wed, 17 Feb 2016 17:02:28 -0500Danielle Muoio
<p>A student from Duke University used his computer science skills for the best purpose: to bring the Weasley clock from "Harry Potter" to life.</p>
<p><img src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/56c4ee2fdd0895f3438b46b5-1887-1061/rawframe.jpg" alt="Harry Potter Weasley clock" data-mce-source="Trey Bagley"></p>
<p>For those who live under a rock and aren't familiar with "Harry Potter," the Weasley clock helps family matriarch Molly Weasley keep track of her seven children. The clock's hands will point to where her children are located at a given time.</p>
<p>Trey Bagley, with the help of Duke's innovation co-lab, made a real version of the clock as a Christmas gift for his parents. He shared a photo and the code he used to create the clock on imgur, and it's gone viral ever since.</p>
<p>Here's how it was made:</p><h3>Bagley was interested in creating a real version of the clock because of his family's close connection to the "Harry Potter" series.</h3>
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<p><br />"It's always been a big family activity and something we could all do together, whether it was a midnight book or movie release or birthday parties," Bagley told Tech Insider. "It was a go-to [activity]."</p>
<p>Bagley has three sisters &mdash; two are in college, and the youngest is slated to move out soon, making his parents "soon to be empty nesters," Bagley said.</p></p>
<br/><br/><h3>He figured the clock would tie everyone together even if they are in different physical locations.</h3>
<img src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/56c4ee2fdd0895f3438b46b9-400-300/he-figured-the-clock-would-tie-everyone-together-even-if-they-are-in-different-physical-locations.jpg" alt="" />
<p><p>"We are all going our different ways, so this ties us all back to home and to this childhood interest and passion," he said.</p></p>
<br/><br/><h3>Bagley got the idea to make the Weasley clock around Thanksgiving break and bought a broken clock from an antique store.</h3>
<img src="http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/56c4ee2fdd0895f3438b46ba-400-300/bagley-got-the-idea-to-make-the-weasley-clock-around-thanksgiving-break-and-bought-a-broken-clock-from-an-antique-store.jpg" alt="" />
<p><p>"I haggled down for it and couldn't go back &mdash; I had to see it through," he said.</p></p>
<br/><br/><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/college-student-made-weasley-clock-from-harry-potter-2016-2#/#first-bagley-had-to-create-the-weasley-clock-design-so-he-used-a-laser-cutter-to-etch-the-design-on-the-wood-surface-of-the-clock-4">See the rest of the story at Business Insider</a> http://www.businessinsider.com/jerry-houghs-letter-to-duke-student-newspaper-in-2001-2015-5Duke professor whose online comments about 'the Asians' sparked outrage wrote something eerily similar in 2001http://www.businessinsider.com/jerry-houghs-letter-to-duke-student-newspaper-in-2001-2015-5
Wed, 20 May 2015 13:55:50 -0400Abby Jackson
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/555bb85b69bedda566792dce-200-298/screen shot 2015-05-19 at 6.24.03 pm.png" border="0" alt="Jerry Hough"></p><p>Duke University professor <a href="http://polisci.duke.edu/people?Gurl=&amp;Uil=1582&amp;subpage=profile">Jerry Hough</a>&nbsp;recently sparked outrage with online comments about "the blacks" and "the Asians" that he wrote in response to a New York Times article called "<span>How Racism Doomed Baltimore."</span></p>
<p><span><span>In his online comment on the article, Hough opined that Asian-Americans were more successful than African-Americans because “they didn’t feel sorry for themselves, but worked doubly hard.”</span></span></p>
<p>Thanks to the internet, these comments gave him instant notoriety. But it's not the first time he's attacked&nbsp;<span>African-Americans for supposedly pitying themselves and perpetuating ideas of inferiority.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p>In 2001, <a href="http://www.dukechronicle.com/articles/2001/04/11/letter-initial-reaction-reparations-ad-lacks-political-tact#.VVtdxVVVhHy">he wrote a letter in Duke's daily student newspaper</a>, The Chronicle, in which he compared<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">&nbsp;African-Americans to another minority group, this time people of Polish descent, to highlight how blacks have supposedly gotten it all wrong.</span></p>
<p><img class="float_left" src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/555bba326bb3f74f5fe7247c-1200-800/468769062.jpg" border="0" alt="Head coach Mike Krzyzewski of the Duke Blue Devils cuts down the net after defeating the Wisconsin Badgers during the NCAA Men's Final Four National Championship at Lucas Oil Stadium on April 6, 2015 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Duke defeated Wisconsin 68-63. (Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images)"></p>
<p>"Blacks at Duke should look at Mike Krzyzewski," Hough wrote, speaking about famed Duke basketball icon Coach K. &nbsp;</p>
<p>"<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">All of his life he had terrible Polish jokes thrown at him far worse that anything than that could be said about blacks in recent decades. The 'n' word is nothing in comparison to those jokes," he wrote.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p>Hough's most recent comments on the Saturday New York Times piece drew critique from Duke administration.</p>
<p>"The comments were noxious, offensive and have no place in civil discourse," said Duke's&nbsp;<span>vice president for public affairs,&nbsp;</span><span>Michael Schoenfeld,</span>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.dukechronicle.com/articles/2015/05/15/updated-james-b-duke-professor-jerry-hough-makes-controversial-comment-new-york-times-editorial#.VVunyFVVhHz">according to The Chronicle.&nbsp;</a></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">But in a nod to free speech and professorial autonomy, Schoenfeld also explained that "at the same time, as noted in the Faculty Handbook, every faculty member at Duke has a right 'to act and to speak in his or her capacity as a citizen without institutional censorship or discipline."</span></p>
<p>For his part, Hough argues that he isn't racist.</p>
<p>"I graduated from college in 1955 and my cause was always black integration," Hough told Business Insider.</p>
<p>And he stands behind the accuracy of his comments in the Times.&nbsp;</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">"The issue is whether my comments were largely accurate. In writing me, no one has said I was wrong, just racist," Hough said <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/05/18/duke-professor-attacked-for-noxious-racial-comments-refuses-to-back-downversial-comments/?tid=pm_national_pop_b">according to the Washinton Post.</a></span></p><p><strong>SEE ALSO:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/student-worker-solidarity-petition-alleging-racist-policies-in-dining-hall-2015-4" >Columbia University students call dining hall policies 'arbitrary and racist' </a></strong></p>
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Sun, 17 May 2015 16:23:00 -0400Daniel Politi
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<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/54bfb76eeab8eaeb0fa4637c-1200-800/4385384680_de8e035516_o.jpg" border="0" alt="Duke University Campus">A Duke University professor has reportedly been placed on leave after posting racist comments online that included talk of “the blacks” and “the Asians.”</p>
<p>Jerry Hough commented on a&nbsp;<em>New York Times&nbsp;</em>editorial titled “<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/10/opinion/sunday/how-racism-doomed-baltimore.html" target="_blank">How Racism Doomed Baltimore</a>” with a six-paragraph screed that seemed to suggest Asian-Americans don’t riot because “they didn’t feel sorry for themselves, but worked doubly hard.”</p>
<p>He also appeared to make a link between the Baltimore riots and that “every black has a strange new name that symbolizes their lack of desire for integration” compared to “every Asian student [who] has a very simple old American first name.”</p>
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<p>Hough told both the local&nbsp;<a href="http://abc11.com/726470/" target="_blank">ABC</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="http://myfox8.com/2015/05/16/duke-university-professor-on-leave-after-making-racial-comment-on-news-website/" target="_blank">Fox</a>&nbsp;affiliates that he was on leave after his comments, in which he identified himself as a Duke professor, raised uproar on campus. In emailed statements, the political science professor defended his comments, saying “Martin Luther King was my hero” and insisting he is “strongly against the toleration of racial discrimination.”&nbsp;<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The key question, though, according to Hough, “is whether my comments were largely accurate. In writing me, no one has said I was wrong, just racist.”</span></p>
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<p>The university has refused to comment on the professor’s situation at the school, although it did distance itself from the professor’s words. "The comments were noxious, offensive, and have no place in civil discourse," said Duke Vice President for Public Affairs and Government Affairs Michael Schoenfeld.</p>
<p>"Duke University has a deeply-held commitment to inclusiveness grounded in respect for all, and we encourage our community to speak out when they feel that those ideals are challenged or undermined, as they were in this case." The comments caused particularly outrage at the university because they came only a few weeks after a Duke student a noose was found hanging in a tree in April, notes the&nbsp;<em><a href="http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article21122886.html" target="_blank">News &amp; Observer</a></em>.</p>
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<p>Hough’s full comments in the&nbsp;<em><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/10/opinion/sunday/how-racism-doomed-baltimore.html#permid=14920736" target="_blank">New York Times</a></em>:</p>
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<blockquote>But the blacks get symbolic recognition in an utterly incompetent mayor who handled this so badly from beginning to end that her resignation would be demanded if she were white. The blacks get awful editorials like this that tell them to feel sorry for themselves.</blockquote>
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<blockquote>In 1965 the Asians were discriminated against as least as badly as blacks. That was reflected in the word "colored." The racism against what even Eleanor Roosevelt called the yellow races was at least as bad.</blockquote>
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<blockquote>So where are the editorials that say racism doomed the Asian-Americans. They didn't feel sorry for themselves, but worked doubly hard.</blockquote>
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<blockquote>I am a professor at Duke University. Every Asian student has a very simple old American first name that symbolizes their desire for integration. Virtually every black has a strange new name that symbolizes their lack of desire for integration. The amount of Asian-white dating is enormous and so surely will be the intermarriage. Black-white dating is almost non-existent because of the ostracism by blacks of anyone who dates a white.</blockquote>
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Sun, 03 May 2015 16:42:00 -0400Melissa Stanger and Emmie Martin
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Wed, 29 Apr 2015 14:58:00 -0400Melissa Stanger and Emmie Martin
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><img style="float:right;" src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/552c3ce5eab8ea531d187244-600-/lawrence-nemeh-1.jpg" border="0" alt="Lawrence Nemeh 1" width="600">With <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/duke-beats-wisconsin-wins-ncaa-tournament-2015-4">another NCAA Tournament championship</a>&nbsp;in the books, it's an exciting time to be at Duke University.</span></p>
<p>But basketball isn't the only area where Duke students excel.&nbsp;<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">From fighting against discrimination to sending time capsules into space to finding a quicker way to detect cancer, Duke students go above and beyond in all they do.</span></p>
<p>We tracked down 18 outstanding undergrads with help from the school's communications office and through recommendations from current students.</p><h3>Arun Karottu and Shelly Li found a safer way to recycle electronic equipment.</h3>
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<p><p><strong>Class of 2015</strong></p>
<p>Arun Karottu and Shelly Li started an electronic waste recycling company called <a href="http://www.smartmetalsrecycling.com/">Smart Metals Recycling</a> after seeing how many electronics were thrown out at Duke at the end of each year. These electronics end up in landfills and harm the environment.</p>
<p>Smart Metals recycles old electronics by recovering reusable metals and plastics from devices and putting them back into the production cycle. The company handles over 100,000 pounds of electronic waste a day, and generates over $6 million in annual revenue.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=161960032">Previously</a>, Karottu, the vice president of sales, founded a medical device company that helps healthcare professionals perform certain tasks &mdash; like checking charts and accessing files &mdash; hands-free. Li, the president, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=34783184&amp;authType=name&amp;authToken=yqaH&amp;trk=prof-sb-browse_map-name">is also</a> a published sci-fi author.</p>
<p>When they graduate, the two seniors plan to build a refurbishing side to their operations and work on larger-scale projects, like decommissioning a power plant to find valuable parts to reuse and recycle.</p></p>
<br/><br/><h3>Brittany Wenger invented a more accurate test to diagnose breast cancer.</h3>
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<p><p><strong>Class of 2017</strong></p>
<p>Brittany Wenger developed cloud4cancer, a cloud-based artificial neural network that diagnoses breast cancer. Cloud4cancer&nbsp;<span>uses a computer program that analyzes breast cancer diagnostic data to detect and recognize patterns in malignant tissue.</span>&nbsp;The program is 99.1% sensitive to malignancy.</p>
<p>Wenger is now taking this invention, which <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/artificial-brain-can-accurately-diagnose-breast-cancer-2012-8">won the grand prize at the 2012 Google Science Fair</a>, to the next level. This past fall she founded the Cloud For Cancer Foundation to further the use of the cloud in cancer research.</p>
<p>Wenger, who was named one of TIME magazine&rsquo;s 30 under 30, has presented her research to the Royal Society of Medicine and Clinton Global Initiative University.</p>
<p>While only a sophomore, Wenger plans on pursuing an MD/PhD when she graduates with the ultimate goal of becoming a pediatric oncologist.</p></p>
<br/><br/><h3>Charlotte Lee taught sex ed in public schools in Kenya.</h3>
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<p><p><strong>Class of 2015</strong></p>
<p>Charlotte Lee worked in rural Kenya training local research assistants and teaching sex education in public schools. One in three people in Muhuru Bay, Kenya, are HIV positive, and Lee taught a curriculum that included hard facts, contraceptive methods, and helping students envision their futures without unplanned pregnancies or STDs.</p>
<p>Lee is a public health advocate in multiple spheres: She also served as<span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> a research associate in the Peruvian Amazon studying the health effects of mercury related to artisanal gold mining, and coordinated the <a href="http://hepfree.nyc/proclamation-nyc-hep-b-awareness-week/">first-ever New York City Hepatitis B Awareness Week</a> with New York City Council.</span></p>
<p>After graduation, Lee will spend the next year as a Luce Scholar with the Henry Luce Foundation doing global health work, most likely in Thailand, looking at diseases like HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis B, which affect maternal and child health. She eventually plans to become an OB/GYN.</p></p>
<br/><br/><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/most-impressive-students-at-duke-2015-3#christine-schindler-founded-a-nonprofit-to-engage-girls-in-impactful-engineering-projects-4">See the rest of the story at Business Insider</a> http://www.businessinsider.com/ncaa-refs-didnt-see-replay-duke-wisconsin-call-2015-4NCAA officiating head says the refs never saw the right replay of the blown call at the end of the Duke-Wisconsin gamehttp://www.businessinsider.com/ncaa-refs-didnt-see-replay-duke-wisconsin-call-2015-4
Tue, 07 Apr 2015 17:39:00 -0400Tony Manfred
<p><img class="full" src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/552447c069bedd9318fc827d-1089-766/justise-winslow-ball-tip.jpg" border="0" alt="justise winslow ball tip"></p><p>NCAA officiating head John Adams <a href="http://deadspin.com/ncaa-officiating-head-refs-never-saw-best-angle-of-con-1696299612">went on the radio on Tuesday</a> and said the referees in the Duke-Wisconsin national championship game didn't see the definitive replay angle of the controversial out-of-bounds call that went against Wisconsin with two minutes left.</p>
<p>With Wisconsin down 63-58 with 1:51 left, a loose ball seemed to bounce off the fingertip of Duke forward Justise Winslow. The referees ruled on the court that it went off of Wisconsin, but decided to review it.</p>
<p>CBS showed a few replays where you couldn't really see the play that well, but then they showed this angle from the opposite side of the play that clearly showed Winslow's finger bending when it hit the ball:</p>
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<p>The CBS commentators, and most viewers at home, watched this and concluded that it went off Duke. But the refs — the only people in the world who needed to see this angle — never saw this replay when they ruled that the ball went off of Wisconsin, Adams says. </p>
<p>In <a href="https://soundcloud.com/siriusxmcollege/ncaa-head-of-officials-john-adams-talks-about-a-controversial-call-in-the-national-championship-game">an interview with Tim Brando on SiriusXM</a>, Adams revealed that he almost went down and summoned the refs back to the table to review the play again when he realized that they hadn't seen the definitive replay.</p>
<p>Here's what Adams said (<a href="http://deadspin.com/ncaa-officiating-head-refs-never-saw-best-angle-of-con-1696299612">via Deadspin</a>):</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">We never saw the view that everyone saw at home. And I saw it after they left the monitor. I actually thought about, is it in my prerogative to get up, run over to the table, buzz the buzzer and tell them to come back and look? That's how critical I thought the play was, and concluded that this is the job for the guys on the floor.</p>
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<p class="embed-spacer">It's a stunning admission from Adams. While the call may not have ultimately changed the outcome of the game — Wisconsin was down by five at the time — it absolutely helped Duke.</p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/ncaa-refs-didnt-see-replay-duke-wisconsin-call-2015-4#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> <p>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/crossfit-upper-body-exercise-workout-2015-2">3 hardcore exercises to build muscle super-fast</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/tim-cook-wearing-apple-watch-at-the-ncaa-national-championship-game-2015-4Here's Tim Cook wearing an Apple Watch at the NCAA national championship game (AAPL)http://www.businessinsider.com/tim-cook-wearing-apple-watch-at-the-ncaa-national-championship-game-2015-4
Tue, 07 Apr 2015 09:37:00 -0400Dave Smith
<p>Apple CEO Tim Cook attended the NCAA men's basketball national championship game in Indianapolis on Monday evening, and he was spotted wearing a steel Apple Watch with a white sport band — the same model watch he wore for the past two Apple keynotes.</p>
<p>Cook, who received his MBA from Duke, greeted students and fans while decked out in all blue, taking several pictures with them.</p>
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Apple's Tim Cook, Duke MBA, greets Blue Devil fans before game. <a href="http://t.co/kVkX6wEJsS">pic.twitter.com/kVkX6wEJsS</a> </p>— Jason Gay (@jasonWSJ) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/585236283858882561">April 7, 2015</a>
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So we just did a selfie w/ Apple CEO and Fuqua alum Tim Cook. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/nbd?src=hash">#nbd</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GoDuke?src=hash">#GoDuke</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/bestweekendever?src=hash">#bestweekendever</a> <a href="http://t.co/lD6Xd1C4Sh">pic.twitter.com/lD6Xd1C4Sh</a> </p>— Mike Leopando (@RMikeLeo) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/585238292423127041">April 7, 2015</a>
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<p class="embed-spacer">The Duke Blue Devils beat the Wisconsin Badgers, 68-63, to win the national title.</p><p><strong>SEE ALSO:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-watch-features-in-gifs-2015-4" >31 GIFs that show how the Apple Watch will work</a></strong></p>
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Mon, 06 Apr 2015 14:17:00 -0400Scott Davis
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/5522bb646bb3f76371d69089-1198-899/jahlil-okafor-duke.jpg" border="0" alt="jahlil okafor duke"></p><p>Duke center Jahlil Okafor has been considered the No. 1 prospect in the 2015 NBA Draft for much of the year.</p>
<p>During the regular season, Okafor — at 6'11", 270 pounds — led the Blue Devils in scoring and rebounding with 17.5 points, 8.6 rebounds, and 1.5 blocks per game.</p>
<p>Okafor is dynamic on offense, particularly in the low post where he can overwhelm opponents or find open teammates because of the defensive attention he demands.</p>
<p>While offense is his strong suit, there are concerns about other parts of Okafor's game. Okafor's rebounding the NCAA Tournament is down to six per game, and <a href="http://www.si.com/college-basketball/2015/04/01/ncaa-tournament-final-four-okafor-towns-nba-draft-no-1-pick">as SI's Pete Thamel notes</a>, Okafor's block percentage is the lowest of any center taken in the top 10 of the NBA draft in the last 10 years.</p>
<p>Thamel recently spoke to NBA insiders about the debate between Okafor and Kentucky's Karl Anthony Towns, who has gained momentum and overtaken Okafor as the No. 1 prospect in recent weeks. One front office official made the strongest argument for why Okafor should be No. 1, despite the obvious flaws in his game:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">"There’s probably only five to seven guys in the NBA who can play with their back to the basketball like Okafor," says a Western Conference front office official who contends he would take Okafor at No. 1. "Towns has better upside and could be a better player, but I’d like to think I can get another Towns before I can get another Okafor."</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/should-jahlil-okafor-be-the-knickscenter-of-attention-1425436361">Wall Street Journal's Chris Herring scouted Okafor</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> and also stated how Okafor's polished offensive game could be tough to pass up:</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">But there’s no telling when a prospect this polished offensively, particularly in the post, will come around again. That might make Okafor too enticing for the Knicks to pass up, even if there are other players with more upside.</p>
<p>During Duke's Final Four matchup with Michigan State, Herring noticed that one of Okafor's best skills is his ability to catch bad passes:</p>
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<p>Coincidentally, ESPN's Shannon Spake tweeted this insane photo of how exactly Okafor makes those catches:</p>
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<p>Okafor is quick and has extremely polished footwork that helps him in the post:</p>
<p> <img src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/5522b84cecad04cf7954f8d4/jahlil%20okafor%20post%202.gif" border="0" alt="Jahlil Okafor post 2"></p>
<p>In addition to posting up, Okafor can get good position near the basket where he can face up and use his ball-handling, dexterity, and speed to make defenders look silly:</p>
<p><img src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/5522b80a6bb3f7a65dd69083/jahlil%20okafor%20post%201.gif" border="0" alt="Jahlil Okafor post 1"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </span></p>
<p>Defense is a mandatory skill for NBA centers, as <a href="http://patternofbasketball.blogspot.com/2015/04/good-centers-play-defense.html">Pattern of Basketball's Jonathan Tjarks noted</a>. Okafor's lack of defensive ability rightfully turns some people off, and it becomes difficult to build a team around a center that can't protect the rim.</p>
<p>Yet elite-level post play can be game-changing as well. While playing out of the post is an increasingly rare skill in the NBA, a center with a dominant post game makes for an easy solution on offense: surround him with shooters and have the defense pick their poison.</p>
<p>Okafor is only 19 years old, and though his flaws are real, there's still hope that when he reaches the NBA he can iron out his defensive issues. </p>
<p>Okafor's skill set is rare, and for some NBA teams, too exceptional to pass up in the draft.</p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/why-jahlil-okafor-might-be-drafted-no-1-2015-4#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> <p>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/crossfit-upper-body-exercise-workout-2015-2">3 hardcore exercises to build muscle super-fast</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gross-investment-outlook-april-1-2015-4Bill Gross tried out for the Duke basketball team (JNS)http://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gross-investment-outlook-april-1-2015-4
Sat, 04 Apr 2015 17:20:00 -0400Myles Udland
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/551be2c56bb3f7d604214466-1200-924/bill-gross-107.jpg" alt="Bill Gross" border="0"></p><p>Bill Gross' <a href="https://www.janus.com/bill-gross-investment-outlook">latest investment outlook</a> is out and this one is a lot of fun.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Gross divulges right at the top that he tried out for Duke's freshman basketball team and got cut.</p>
<p>Gross then attended a basketball camp for adults and missed a wide open layup, leading gross to the realization that:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;">If there ever was an economic concept that currently is not a layup, it would be what the future average level of Fed Funds will be. No one really knows and unlike the gimme layup that Coach K provided for me, there are no "gimmes" when it comes to scoring a Fed Funds basket.</p>
<p>The relevant investment theme that Gross addresses in the outlook are not really anything new for the former "Bond King."</p>
<p>Gross talks a lot about the "new neutral," which is his idea that interest rates will remain low for an extended period of time due to the over-indebted and over-leveraged global financial system.</p>
<p>This is not new for Gross.</p>
<p>As for how to deal with this environment, Gross says there are four main approaches:</p>
<ul>
<li><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The Ray Dalio approach theme&nbsp;<span>hat if borrowing costs center around 0% real, then assets can be cautiously levered, being cognizant at the same time of the fat tails inherent in our new world of leverage and extreme monetary policy.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span>The Jeremy Grantham approach of&nbsp;<span>waiting it out in low returning cash under the assumption of a 7 year reversion to the mean, instead of a 20 year cycle hinted at by Rogoff and others.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span>The Warren Buffett approach that has a near perpetual closed-end fund purchasing stocks when fundamentally cheap.&nbsp;</span></span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span>And the Jack Bogle method of indexing at a low cost.&nbsp;</span></span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="line-height: 22.5px;">Gross sees himself modeling the Bridgewater method, and <a href="https://www.janus.com/bill-gross-investment-outlook">you can read all of Gross' latest outlook here »</a></span></p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gross-investment-outlook-april-1-2015-4#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gross-investment-outlook-april-1-2015-4Bill Gross tried out for the Duke basketball team, got cut, and now he knows there are no easy buckets (JNS)http://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gross-investment-outlook-april-1-2015-4
Wed, 01 Apr 2015 08:22:00 -0400Myles Udland
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/551be2c56bb3f7d604214466-1200-924/bill-gross-107.jpg" border="0" alt="Bill Gross"></p><p>Bill Gross' <a href="https://www.janus.com/bill-gross-investment-outlook">latest investment outlook</a> is out and this one is a lot of fun.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Gross divulges right at the top that he tried out for Duke's freshman basketball team and got cut.</p>
<p>Gross then attended a basketball camp for adults and missed a wide open layup, leading gross to the realization that:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;">If there ever was an economic concept that currently is not a layup, it would be what the future average level of Fed Funds will be. No one really knows and unlike the gimme layup that Coach K provided for me, there are no "gimmes" when it comes to scoring a Fed Funds basket.</p>
<p>The relevant investment theme that Gross addresses in the outlook are not really anything new for the former "Bond King."</p>
<p>Gross talks a lot about the "new neutral," which is his idea that interest rates will remain low for an extended period of time due to the over-indebted and over-leveraged global financial system.</p>
<p>This is not new for Gross.</p>
<p>As for how to deal with this environment, Gross says there are four main approaches:</p>
<ul>
<li><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The Ray Dalio approach theme&nbsp;<span>hat if borrowing costs center around 0% real, then assets can be cautiously levered, being cognizant at the same time of the fat tails inherent in our new world of leverage and extreme monetary policy.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span>The Jeremy Grantham approach of&nbsp;<span>waiting it out in low returning cash under the assumption of a 7 year reversion to the mean, instead of a 20 year cycle hinted at by Rogoff and others.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span>The Warren Buffett approach that has a near perpetual closed-end fund purchasing stocks when fundamentally cheap.&nbsp;</span></span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span>And the Jack Bogle method of indexing at a low cost.&nbsp;</span></span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="line-height: 22.5px;">Gross sees himself modeling the Bridgewater method, and <a href="https://www.janus.com/bill-gross-investment-outlook">you can read all of Gross' latest outlook here »</a></span></p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gross-investment-outlook-april-1-2015-4#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/belle-knox-is-remaking-herself-as-a-libertarian-2015-1Porn Star Belle Knox Is Remaking Herself As A Libertarian Activist http://www.businessinsider.com/belle-knox-is-remaking-herself-as-a-libertarian-2015-1
Wed, 28 Jan 2015 16:02:00 -0500Hunter Walker
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/54c9443069beddfe3e13dd96-600-/img_1843-3.jpg" border="0" alt="Miriam Weeks a.k.a. Belle Knox " width="600"></p><p>College sophomore Miriam Weeks found herself at the center of an international controversy last year when she became <a href="http://www.dukechronicle.com/articles/2014/02/14/portrait-porn-star">infamous as the "Duke porn star</a>."</p>
<p>Now, Weeks wants to make waves in the political world.</p>
<p>She's working with a libertarian group on her campus and has a burgeoning public speaking career. In a phone conversation with Business Insider on Monday, Weeks discussed how her <span>adult film career influenced her&nbsp;</span>libertarian activism.</p>
<p>"I&nbsp;think that my&nbsp;work and being in the porn industry definitely hits on so many libertarian themes like&nbsp;free speech, and censorship, and, you know, choice and autonomy over our&nbsp;bodies," Weeks explained. "So I think that I've really become passionate about libertarian issues because&nbsp;of the intersection."</p>
<p>Her public life began after a fellow student at Duke University revealed to their classmates that Weeks was performing in adult films using the alter ego "Belle Knox." Weeks took control of the situation and <a href="http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/03/05/3675461_duke-porn-star-reveals-her-face.html?rh=1">gave a series of interviews</a> where she said she entered the porn industry to help pay for college and discussed the social stigma against sex workers. She also <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/the-blue-devil-in-miss-belle-knox-meet-duke-porn-star-miriam-weeks-20140423">identified herself as a libertarian</a>.</p>
<p>"I'm conservative," Weeks said. "I'm very socially liberal, but I'm very economically conservative."</p>
<p>According to Weeks, a friend who saw these early interviews referred her to Students For Liberty, an organization that bills itself as "the largest libertarian student organization in the world."&nbsp;She joined the group last summer, in between her freshman and sophomore year, and participated in its training programs online and in Washington, D.C.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now, Weeks is the campus coordinator for Students for Liberty at Duke. In this capacity, Weeks said she brings speakers to campus, attends conferences and seminars, posts flyers, and maintains a presence for the group at school events. On the Students for Liberty website, Weeks identifies her&nbsp;<a href="http://studentsforliberty.org/profile/miriam-weeks/">"favorite figures in liberty"</a>&nbsp;as Ayn Rand, economist Milton Friedman, and two other activists whose careers have included both sex and politics: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Hartley">porn star Nina Hartley</a> and <a href="http://www.cato-unbound.org/contributors/maggie-mcneill">former call girl Maggie McNeill</a>. &nbsp;</p>
<p>Weeks brought her first speaker to Duke on Tuesday:&nbsp;Ayn Rand Institute head Yaron Brook. She immediately rattled off two names when asked about whom she would ideally hope to bring to the school next.</p>
<p>"My dream list would be like Ron Paul, or Rand Paul would be really cool," Weeks said, adding, "That'd be pretty awesome."</p>
<p>And given her affinity for the libertarian political dynasty, it should come as no surprise Weeks is ready to support Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) if he goes forward with his widely expected 2016 presidential bid.</p>
<p>"I&nbsp;totally endorse him," Weeks said. "He actually graduated from Duke, so&nbsp;that's just another reason for me to love him."</p>
<p>Weeks declined to comment when asked about whether she's still filming adult movies. However, she was clear she's interested in going "further" in the political realm.</p>
<p>In addition to her work with Students for Liberty, Weeks said she was recently appointed to the national board of directors for the Sex Workers Outreach Project. Weeks also said she has given speeches at other colleges. In October, Weeks is <a href="http://lfnyc.com/confirmed-speakers/confirmed-belle-knox-speak-lfnyc-2015/">scheduled to speak at LibertyFest</a>, an annual libertarian event in New York City. &nbsp;</p>
<p>Weeks plans to focus on<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">&nbsp;college costs and the decriminalization of sex work a<span>s she enters the world of political activism.&nbsp;</span>She's also interested in feminism, free speech, and censorship.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p>While her work in porn helped fuel her political beliefs, Weeks says she began developing her ideology earlier in life.</p>
<p>"I grew up Catholic, so I grew up in a very, very, conservative background and that, I&nbsp;think, really was kind of the impetus for why I wanted to become a libertarian. I&nbsp;was always being told to cover up my body and I was always&nbsp;being told to wait until marriage to have sex, that my body would go down&nbsp;if I didn't wait till marriage to have sex," Weeks explained, adding, "That really made me become a libertarian and become a feminist."</p>
<p>After she came forward last year, Weeks said she faced a "lot of backlash both from people at school, people in the&nbsp;industry, and just the population in general." She attributes this to those who believe porn is "bad for women" and a "puritanical attitude" that she said runs rampant in the country.</p>
<p>"I think that America has really deeply-seated kind of Christian&nbsp;puritanical values against sex. Our values really place the family&nbsp;unit at the center of our culture," Weeks said. "You see it all the time in political&nbsp;rhetoric and people really view porn as a threat to the family unit. They really view porn as a threat to marriage and I really think&nbsp;that's why some people have an issue."</p>
<p>In contrast, Weeks said libertarians have generally been "really accepting" of her background.</p>
<p>"I think that it's actually helped me within the libertarian community because I&nbsp;think that people have been able to kind of look past it and they do&nbsp;respect it. And I think they also do respect it that I made it into&nbsp;more of an academic thing and more of an educational thing," she said.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Still, Weeks concedes there have been some exceptions to this accepting attitude.</p>
<p>"There's, of course, been people in the libertarian community who have an issue with me,&nbsp;but it's been because they have an issue with porn," Weeks said.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And Weeks is definitely attracting attention in the libertarian world. Along with her growing list of affiliations and speaking engagements, Weeks pointed out that this week the website Liberty Viral included her on a list of "<a href="http://libertyviral.com/the-20-hottest-libertarian-ladies-of-2015/#axzz3Q9Flyy9q">The 20 Hottest Libertarian Ladies of 2015</a>."</p>
<p>"That was neat," Weeks said.&nbsp;</p>
<p>While she's getting noticed in the libertarian world, Weeks said she hasn't received mainstream media attention. She attributed this to bias against porn.</p>
<p>"People want to focus on the negative. ... My story really has so&nbsp;many angles to it and there's a narrative of women who do porn and women who&nbsp;do sex work of a victim. And I don't fit that narrative because I am doing&nbsp;really positive things, like really cool academic and positive things," Weeks said. "I&nbsp;think that media is scared. Like, if they write this article, 'Belle's Really Doing Well,' then girls everywhere are going to want to do&nbsp;porn."</p>
<p>Weeks hasn't yet made a ton of headlines in the political world, but she sounds like she's planning to. She said she definitely plans to work in politics after finishing college. Weeks indicated she wants to work as a legal advocate for women.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"People always laugh at me when I say this because everyone always thinks I&nbsp;can't do it, but I want to be a lawyer for women. ... Gloria Allred, she's like my idol and I want to be her," Weeks said. "Once I have my law degree and I kind of have that background ...&nbsp;I would love to be somebody who could testify in front of Congress or somebody who does advocacy."</p>
<p>Weeks also hinted she might even want to run for office one day.</p>
<p>"If someone would want to have me as their campaign&nbsp;assistant I would love to do that. I don't know if I could ever win if I ran&nbsp;for political office because I'm very radical. I'm kind of very radical or extreme&nbsp;on the spectrum I feel like and, obviously you have to appeal to the average&nbsp;person, but you never know," Weeks said, adding, "There's a porn star in Italy who's now a politician, so, you never know."&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/belle-knox-is-remaking-herself-as-a-libertarian-2015-1#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/duke-university-fraternity-under-investigation-for-sexual-assault-2015-1Duke Frat Suspended While Police Investigate An Alleged Rapehttp://www.businessinsider.com/duke-university-fraternity-under-investigation-for-sexual-assault-2015-1
Wed, 21 Jan 2015 11:16:01 -0500
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/54bfb77f6bb3f7977701c454-600-/duke-university-campus-4.jpg" border="0" alt="Duke University Campus" width="600"></p><p>DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — Duke University says it has suspended a fraternity while police investigate allegations a woman was sexually assaulted at an off-campus party.</p>
<p>A statement from the university says Alpha Delta Phi has been suspended while Durham police investigate what happened at an off-campus house leased by fraternity members.</p>
<p>Durham Police Chief Jose Lopez told WRAL-TV that his department is seeking information from anyone at the Jan. 8 party. No charges had been filed as of Tuesday afternoon.</p>
<p>Local media outlets obtained a search warrant that says the woman told police she had drinks at the party before awaking the next day in only a T-shirt. The warrant says the last thing she remembers was dancing with friends.</p>
<p>The warrant says investigators took a mattress, comforter and condom from the house.</p>
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Mon, 15 Sep 2014 09:47:00 -0400Christina Farr
<p><img src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/5416ed4decad04ce613a412b-937-703/healthkit-11.png" border="0" alt="HealthKit"></p><p>(Reuters) - Two prominent U.S. hospitals are preparing to launch trials with diabetics and chronic disease patients using Apple Inc's (<span id="symbol_AAPL.O_0"><a href="http://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/overview?symbol=AAPL.O">AAPL.O</a></span>) HealthKit, offering a glimpse of how the iPhone maker's ambitious take on healthcare will work in practice.</p>
<p>HealthKit, which is still under development, is the center of a new healthcare system by Apple. Regulated medical devices, such as glucose monitors with accompanying iPhone apps, can send information to HealthKit. With a patient's consent, Apple's service gathers data from various health apps so that it can be viewed by doctors in one place.</p>
<p>Stanford University Hospital doctors said they are working with Apple to let physicians track blood sugar levels for children with diabetes. Duke University is developing a pilot to track blood pressure, weight and other measurements for patients with cancer or heart disease.</p>
<p>The goal is to improve the accuracy and speed of reporting data, which often is done by phone and fax now. Potentially doctors would be able to warn patients of an impending problem. The pilot programs will be rolled out in the coming weeks.</p>
<p>Apple last week mentioned the trials in a news release announcing the latest version of its operating system for phones and tablets, iOS 8, but this is the first time any details have been made public. Apple declined to comment for this article.</p>
<p>Apple aims eventually to work with health care providers across the United States, including hospitals which are experimenting with using technology to improve preventative care to lower healthcare cost and make patients healthier.</p>
<p>Reuters previously reported that Apple is in talks with other U.S. hospitals. Stanford Children's Chief Medical Information Officer Christopher Longhurst told Reuters that Stanford and Duke were among the furthest along.</p>
<p>Longhurst said that in the first Stanford trial, young patients with Type 1 diabetes will be sent home with an iPod touch to monitor blood sugar levels between doctor's visits.</p>
<p>HealthKit makes a critical link between measuring devices, including those used at home by patients, and medical information services relied on by doctors, such as Epic Systems Corp, a partner already announced by Apple.</p>
<p>Medical device makers are taking part in the Stanford and Duke trials.</p>
<p>DexCom Inc (<span id="symbol_DXCM.O_1"><a href="http://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/overview?symbol=DXCM.O">DXCM.O</a></span>), which makes blood sugar monitoring equipment, is in talks with Apple, Stanford, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration about integrating with HealthKit, said company Chief Technical Officer Jorge Valdes.</p>
<p>DexCom's device measures glucose levels through a tiny sensor inserted under the skin of the abdomen. That data is transmitted every five minutes to a hand-held receiver, which works with a blood glucose meter. The glucose measuring system then sends the information to DexCom's mobile app, on an iPhone, for instance.</p>
<p>Under the new system, HealthKit can scoop up the data from DexCom, as well as other app and device makers.</p>
<p>Data can be uploaded from HealthKit into Epic's "MyChart" application, where it can be viewed by clinicians in Epic's electronic health record.</p>
<p>PRIVACY MATTERS</p>
<p>While HealthKit promises to enhance the process of data-sharing between physicians and those under their care, observers have noted the potential for sensitive data to be abused. Others are leery of having all their private information stored in one location, susceptible to hackers for instance.</p>
<p>To ensure patient privacy, Apple is considering creating a "HealthKit Certification" for third party developers, with conditions stipulating how data must be stored securely on devices and forbidding sale of data to advertisers, according to people familiar with Apple's plans. Apple recently updated its developer guidelines with data sharing rules for health apps.</p>
<p>Stanford's Longhurst said he expects the pilot to be expanded quickly if there are no problems.</p>
<p>Rajiv Kumar, the physician leading Stanford's pilot and a pediatric endocrinologist at Stanford Children's Health, said his team may soon be able to set up alerts, so they can notify patients via Epic MyChart when their blood sugar spikes or falls.</p>
<p>Kumar said two young patients with diabetes have been chosen to participate in the initial trial and he hopes to extend the pilot to teens and infants.</p>
<p>Duke University's Ricky Bloomfield, an internal medicine pediatrician and director of mobile strategy, hopes the pilot will help doctors access the data they need to better monitor sick patients living at home.</p>
<p>"This could eliminate the hassle of getting data from patients, who want to give it to us," said Bloomfield. "HealthKit removes some of the error from patients' manually entering their data."</p>
<p>(Editing by&nbsp;<a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/search/journalist.php?edition=us&amp;n=eddie.chan&amp;">Edwin Chan</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/search/journalist.php?edition=us&amp;n=peter.henderson&amp;">Peter Henderson</a>)</p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/duke-stanford-university-working-with-apple-on-healthkit-2014-9#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/invisibility-cloak-could-hide-things-from-sonar-2014-3An 'Invisibility' Cloak Is Getting Closer To Realityhttp://www.businessinsider.com/invisibility-cloak-could-hide-things-from-sonar-2014-3
Tue, 25 Mar 2014 10:42:00 -0400Jesse Emspak
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/53309669eab8ea0326a1750b-800-/invisibility-cloak-sonar.jpg" border="0" alt="invisibility cloak sonar" width="800" /></p><p>Cloaking devices, a staple of science fiction (think Harry Potter), are getting closer to reality. Researchers at Duke University have built a structure that would hide anything under it from sonar &mdash; at least in air.</p>
<p>Made of sheets of perforated plastic, the pyramid-shaped cloak changes the shape and speed of <a href="http://www.livescience.com/38181-soundwaves-levitate-objects.html">sound waves</a> as they hit it. Those changes make the sound waves appear to reflect off the surface the pyramid is standing on, as though it wasn't there.</p>
<p>To build the cloak, Lucian Zigoneanu, Bogdan-Ioan Popa and Steven Cummer modeled the way sound waves act on a computer. They tried several simulated shapes, and eventually came up with the pyramid design, made with sheets that have holes in them. [<a href="http://www.livescience.com/44207-acoustic-cloak-hides-objects-from-sound-video.html">See Video of Sound-Cloaking Device in Action</a>]</p>
<h2>Holes are key</h2>
<p>To test their idea, they put a sphere inside the pyramid, and then placed both in a largely empty room with a sound generator and a microphone. The sound generator made a "ping" that would bounce off the pyramid. A single microphone on a gantry-like apparatus recorded the sound from hundreds of different positions.</p>
<p>The holes had to be exactly the right size, adjusted according to the wavelength of the sound hitting them. Without the holes the sound waves would just bounce off and reveal the presence of the pyramid. With them, some sound waves were slowed down. The slower waves followed a longer path back to a detector, just as they would if the pyramid wasn't there. The shape of the reflected wave looks just as it would if it hit a flat surface, fooling any sonar into thinking the cloak and anything under it doesn't exist.</p>
<p>When sonar equipment sends a "ping," or bats or <a href="http://www.livescience.com/38087-can-dolphins-detect-pregnant-women.html">dolphins use echolocation</a>, they time the sound to see how long before it is reflected back. Simply absorbing the sound wouldn't work for the same reason absorbing all <a href="http://www.livescience.com/38169-electromagnetism.html">light wavelengths</a> wouldn't &mdash; instead of an invisible object you'd have a black shape.</p>
<p>"In [the] cloaking problem you can't have the sound reflect in a different direction, and you can't just absorb, because it casts a shadow," Cummer told Live Science.</p>
<p>That fact makes cloaks tricky to design: The waves of sound or light must come back to the detection device &mdash; be it sonar microphones, <a href="http://www.livescience.com/3919-human-eye-works.html">human eyeballs</a> or radar &mdash; with the same shape and frequency they'd have with no object in the way.</p>
<h2>Next steps for sonar cloak</h2>
<p>Cummer noted that there's still some way to go before this technology would be ready <a href="http://www.livescience.com/11695-invisibility-cloak-hides-3-objects-naked-eye.html">to protect a submarine</a>.</p>
<p>"The real kicker in trying to transition to water is that there's so much contrast in the material," he said. "With air and a solid, no sound wave energy gets into the solid."</p>
<p>Unlike air, water, is so dense that the vibrations get into the cloak itself and the object you want to hide. The density of water also varies more, so the waves behave differently and a much more involved set of calculations would be required. In addition, a moving object adds another layer of complexity to the design, because the angle the sound waves are coming from changes.</p>
<p>That said, there are other areas where a sound cloak might prove useful. Auditorium design is one, and solving the problems of projecting sounds loud enough for the people in the cheap seats to hear while avoiding unwanted echoes. Cloaking certain structures might one day solve those problems.</p>
<p>Cummer, a professor of electrical and computer engineering, started his scientific career investigating light waves, but soon branched into investigating sound as well. "Waves are waves," he said.</p>
<p>With this line of research he wanted to show that using computer-aided design and applying sophisticated mathematics could allow one to build cloaks without exotic materials. "We wanted to more broadly show that transformation-based approach can be done with well designed things not that hard to make," he said.</p>
<p>The sound cloak is detailed in the March 9 issue of the journal Nature Materials.</p>
<p>Original article on <a href="http://www.livescience.com/44260-cloak-hide-objects-from-sonar.html">Live Science</a>.</p>
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Thu, 27 Feb 2014 13:27:00 -0500Peter Jacobs
<p>A creative Duke basketball fan just played a great prank on rival school University of North Carolina, replacing the midterm study notes for a history class with a picture of Blue Devils forward&nbsp;Amile Jefferson.</p>
<p>After realizing the midterm study guide had been deleted, one UNC student posted a screenshot of the doctored picture of Jefferson, which featured the text "You Mad Carolina?" According to BroBible, <a href="http://www.brobible.com/college/article/duke-student-trolls-deletes-midterm-notes/">where we first saw this prank</a>,&nbsp;<span>"History 107: 'A survey of Western Europe and the Mediterranean World, 300-1500,' hosted a study guide on Google Docs. Students and TAs compiled information on the sheet as preparation for a midterm, and the doc was unbelievably left public."</span></p>
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